All Things Under Heaven - Excellent, Based on 3 Critics

Drowned In Sound - 100Based on rating 10/10

100

I think I speak for us all when I say that we at Drowned In Sound are a right lovely bunch of left-leaning, limp-wristed, lily-livered liberals. As such, we find it terribly tricky to entertain the reactionary notion that particular types of dark or aggressive-sounding music can make good people do bad things. The possibility that Judas Priest might make you shoot yourself, for instance.

Singer and bandleader Joe Cardamome figures that Icarus Line have landed closer to the elusive truth than ever before on All Things Under Heaven. It turns out that the truth is neither pretty nor particularly easy to stomach. It’s well worth persevering with, though. Icarus Line are often described as post-hardcore, whatever that's supposed to mean.